satirist
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And facts so clean that a satirist would reject them as too on the nose: one six-pack, one dry village, one retired pilot, one $95,000 plane.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Juvenal was a satirist, she says, not an objective reporter; he may have been wryly speculating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Because these portrayals are so acute and unsparing, Jhabvala is sometimes described as a satirist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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